Thinking About Things And Other Frivolities

Author : Edward Farley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620329921
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities written by Edward Farley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir records the story of the author's personal journey toward a life of university teaching and probes that story in reflective essays on a variety of subjects. One group of essays has to do with the characteristic activities and institutional setting of a professor. Other essays explore ways of experiencing the world as mysterious, beautiful, and tragic. One piece offers a rather somber account of current ways in which the American experiment in democracy is in peril. Scraps of what looks like an intellectual autobiography are scattered over the pages of the narrative, recalling the puzzles that gave rise to a number of writing projects. In a way this is a book of paradoxes and antitheses. Janus-like, it faces toward the past and the future. It offers generalized convictions and specific observations, treats both the ordinary themes of life experience and tangled esoterica, and presents both the experiences of an individual and an analysis of educational institutions. As a whole, the book invites readers to join the author in "thinking about things."

Author : Edward Farley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630871346
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities written by Edward Farley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir records the story of the author's personal journey toward a life of university teaching and probes that story in reflective essays on a variety of subjects. One group of essays has to do with the characteristic activities and institutional setting of a professor. Other essays explore ways of experiencing the world as mysterious, beautiful, and tragic. One piece offers a rather somber account of current ways in which the American experiment in democracy is in peril. Scraps of what looks like an intellectual autobiography are scattered over the pages of the narrative, recalling the puzzles that gave rise to a number of writing projects. In a way this is a book of paradoxes and antitheses. Janus-like, it faces toward the past and the future. It offers generalized convictions and specific observations, treats both the ordinary themes of life experience and tangled esoterica, and presents both the experiences of an individual and an analysis of educational institutions. As a whole, the book invites readers to join the author in "thinking about things."

Author : Louis Antoine Godey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monthly Magazine of Belles-lettres and the Arts, the Lady's Book written by Louis Antoine Godey and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy TOUCH'EM (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Beck.])
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Frivolity; a poem written by Timothy TOUCH'EM (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Beck.]) and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Free Thought Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rev. Thomas Beck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Frivolity: a Poem ... Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged written by Rev. Thomas Beck and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sin-wai Chan
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629960230
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Humanity in the New Millennium written by Sin-wai Chan and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident, with offended Muslims attacking Danish embassies and threatening the life of the cartoonist. Editorial cartoons have been called the most extreme form of criticism society will allow, but not all cartoons are tolerated. Unrestricted by journalistic standards of objectivity, editorial cartoonists wield ire and irony to reveal the naked truths about presidents, celebrities, business leaders, and other public figures. Indeed, since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have made important contributions to and offered critical commentary on our society. Today, however, many syndicated cartoons are relatively generic and gag-related, reflecting a weakening of the newspaper industry's traditional watchdog function. Chris Lamb offers a richly illustrated and engaging history of a still vibrant medium that "forces us to take a look at ourselves for what we are and not what we want to be." The 150 drawings in Drawn to Extremes have left readers howling-sometimes in laughter, but often in protest.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Think on These Things. [A Discourse on Philip. Iv. 8. By J. Abercrombie.] Eighth Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean-Alexandre Perras
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1781888876
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'La Découverte de l’Île Frivole' by Gabriel-François Coyer written by Jean-Alexandre Perras and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Découverte de l’île Frivole (1751) se présente comme un épisode inédit du Voyage autour du monde de l’amiral anglais George Anson et de son équipage. Le texte décrit leurs aventures sur une île étrange, dont les habitants, nommés Frivolites, sont tout entiers occupés de modes, de coiffures, de romans et de desserts historiés. Cette parodie chatoyante présente un tableau sévère mais enjoué de la France des premières années du siècle de Louis XV. Elle résonne avec les pages les plus critiques de Jean-Jacques Rousseau contre le luxe et la mollesse du siècle, ou celles, ironiques, que Voltaire fit paraître contre ses compatriotes. Elle n’épargne pas non plus les Anglais, alors que l’anglomanie bat son plein. Ce volume constitue la première édition critique bilingue d’un texte qui a fait en son temps beaucoup de bruit, tant en France qu’en Angleterre. La Découverte de l’île Frivole (1751) is presented as a supplement to George Anson’s Voyage Round the World, and recounts the adventures of the English admiral and his crew on a strange island whose inhabitants, the Frivolians, are devoted to fashion, hairstyles, novels, and fancy desserts. This tale is at once both playful and cynical and its biting irony spares neither the reputation of France nor that of England. It resonates with the most critical attacks by Jean-Jacques Rousseau against luxury and refinement, or those of Voltaire against his compatriots. This volume provides the first bilingual critical edition of a text that, in its time, caused a stir both in France and in England.

Author : William Meynell Whittemore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
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Download or read book Sunshine, conducted by W.M. Whittemore [and others]. written by William Meynell Whittemore and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: